 Thanks for this amazing introduction. Ever since the last few years we've been doing the GDV report as part of the main track of the AGM. This is something that used to be done during the AGM exclusively, but for transparency and well availability reasons we decided to move it well here the normal academy tracks. So all of you know what kind of things that we've been up to and are on our minds and in case that you want to help you can just step forward as always. That will be above of course later this week. First of all while introducing ourselves my name is Olish and I am the president right now. You can see here on the screen Aika who's our vice president and treasurer. Please wave. Great job. Lydia, our other vice president, Neofitos who is a board member and then as well Adrian who is being a bit shy but should be with us soon enough. There's no elections this year because that's how it works. We have three year mandates and well this year there's none to challenge or to fill. We've had a good amount of new members, 23 since last academy. Good job everyone both board joining and for inviting to join the GDV. You will know that you need to have a member to suggest you to the membership. So if you want to be part of the GDV find one, maybe one of us or anyone in the association and tell them that you want to feel a questionnaire they will know what you mean. It's our secret code for joining. It's very important to have new people and seeing all of the 23 of you makes my heart warm. So a round of applause for all of you. Welcome. Besides the membership itself we have the supporting members who are people who decide to support economically as well as in some capacities the GDV which is a way for us to include you when you don't want to participate directly with the tasks but you still want to support KDV. We've been trying to improve this program by sending more information about what we've been up to. We're still having some problems with CVCRM. We're working on them and actually if it doesn't get solved soon enough we will look into alternatives but we're still hopeful because that's the kind of people we are. This was about individuals of course which are the ones like any of you you can go and join the game as we called it back then. There's also a program for companies to become patrons. You will have heard of it but internally we call it corporate supportive members. Patrons are only the higher tiers. There's also the supporters of KDE of course. Let's name them. The thing mainly there's the systems, Google, the kit company, Canonical, and the new ones this year which are Slimbook and Pine64. You're very welcome. There's also the supporters of KDE of course which are Businesscom, KDAB, and Content GmbH. Also thank you very much for being there. We have the KDE advisory board as well which is a structure that we created for patrons but not exclusively. You will see most of our KDE patrons as part of the advisory board but not just that. You can see there's other nonprofits around our community that are also part of it namely Post Nigeria, the Document Foundation, the City of Munich, the FSFS are also part of these. Open UK are also part of these conversations. This is mostly a space where we first update on what we've been up to during the last few months or ever since the last meeting anyway. We have discussions on how certain things could be done better, not that much on the KDE product themselves but also as well at an organizational level. We have a bunch of partners as well and affiliations as an organization. I'm sure that it makes a whole lot of sense to go through all of them but if you're an organization and you would like to work closely with the KDE V, well there's that possibility. We can be a member of your organization. Maybe that makes sense like it does for example for OSI or the Open Invention Network. If you're doing something related to KDE locally and you're properly set up, you can consider signing the local KDE organizations document and then we can have this more formal conversation as well. All of them are very welcome. We're lucky to have so many friends around the world and we would be happy to have them more. With that we come to staff and contractors. KDEV as an organization has a number of staff members and contractors that we have to support the KDE community. We have Petra as our assistant to the board, Annika and Paul as marketing consultants to help us with promoting KDE. Adam as a project coordinator and generally a very funny academy introducer. We have Alison to help us with all kinds of event management things and since not too long ago Frederick and Carl to help us getting our documentation in order. Next slide please. We also have a number of upcoming positions. Two of them are for the Plower Angle grant project for the grant that we got from the Bundesumweltamt which you might have heard in Koneas talk yesterday and then we have three positions coming up that are related to this whole make a living initiative which we'll talk a bit about later here and if you just and I will have a talk about it later today. Next slide please. So let's go to the individual positions we have. Petra is amazing in helping us maintaining our office doing all the accounting and related paperwork making sure that anyone who needs a reimbursement from KDEV gets it and helping support with Academy, helping us organize meetings and stuff like that and generally helping the board stay on top of things. Next slide please. Then we have Alison who is doing amazing stuff with all kinds of events supporting the Academy team, supporting the Linux App Summit team the upcoming 21st anniversary of KDEV and has also been helping with the fundraising efforts by making sure that we send out good stuff to our supporting members to give them updates on KDEV's efforts. Next slide please. Then we have Adam who you now have heard a few times already who is helping us with logistics for the Goal Champions helping organize all kinds of things related to the goals so that they are progressing along nicely. Check out his plug posts about what's happening around the goals. Also we have this whole fiduciary licensing agreement process and documentation around it which is supporting the trainings that you had the day before yesterday were organized by him and in general sprint organizing. If we hopefully soon get back to actual real-life in-person events like sprints then Adam is there to help you make that happen. Next slide please. With that I hand over. Yeah, I'll jump in to share a bit more what Anika and Paul have been doing on the marketing front. Anika has been pushing a lot on the KDEV network setup and it already started in India with some successful stories there and it's now being built in China and soon in Brazil as I interest from there as well. In India specifically there has been, they have been establishing relationships with the public officials and institutions in Kerala which is a city region in India. They managed to get some KDE applications into some public schools and other institutions and also were started participating in events in China. Specifically in India there seems to be an increasing number of committed contributors coming from there so this is very encouraging and we want even more. The team has organized our presence, the KDE presence and created content for visual pools in external events like false Asia and false them in the last year while also doing their usual work which is around authoring announcements, doing blog posts, thought stories, social media management and promoting in general all the KDE projects our developers and our products and for the first time Promo participated in the season of KDE with three projects and mentoring three, I think, or four students so with some very, very good results and new applications coming out of that so that was also very interesting and hunting over to eight. If I can get the next slide please. We have our very newest hires they're too new for pictures so Carl and Frederick, hey send in some nice headshots and join the group photo of course. Carl and Frederick have joined us to work on documentation. API documentation is sort of the the main focus but we'll also be looking at application documentation. This is a process we started in 2018 where we had an analysis done of what our documentation provides and what is needed. Carl is going to be working on the tooling support to modernize our tool chain, make things nicer in general and Frederick has been reaching out to various parts of the community to actually collect the work for improving the actual documentation so that's yeah they've they just started two weeks ago. They have a number of buffs here at Academy so you can chime in give them more information and work together to make KDE better if we can move on. Another way of making KDE better is hey our favorite event Academy. We were originally going to try to have Academy 2021 in person because we used to be optimists. We are still optimists so hey let's try it again. Academy 2022 we'll plan to have it in person somewhere. We've now got so much experience with doing this kind of online event that we'll be searching for the balance of real life and online to make it easier for everyone to attend. Once the call for papers or call for locations is out hey maybe it should be near your place. Moving on. In 2021 hey Academy didn't happen in real life and our usual activities are a lot of sprints because it's important to bring the KDE community together. Sprints didn't happen much. You can't get together and sit together and spread diseases together so we didn't do that much. We had a couple of online events. You see the list is fairly short here on the screen. I don't know whether that's because people didn't organize things or whether it's just so easy to get together online now that nobody bothered to call it a real sprint. The board gets together regularly. You see that where we love our administrative get-togethers. Moving on. Conferences and trade shows is also a big event for the KDE EV. We love going to FOSDEM and well FOSDEM like everything else in the online world or in the free software world turned online. So let's try that again. We're planning to be there in February when the weather is cold. Our own conferences. Hey, we organized Academy 2020 and it was great and now we're organizing Academy 2021 and it's going to be great and in between we had the Linux app summit that's largely thanks to Aleish and other people so I just get to talk about it. But the LAS was quite a success both years. LAS 2021 was just what two weeks ago and recently in any case. So those continue to be good events for KDE. Moving on. Somebody else. That's me. All right, fundraising. So our fundraising strategy has mostly remained the same in the last year as it was also in the previous years with our primary income sources being the individual donations as well as the donations from supporting members of those individuals and also companies and in general those sources have continued to develop very well. That is not something we take for granted because we just had the global pandemic and money was tied for the folks but apparently in at least in our network and in our audience folks felt actually more generous as a result. So we've seen an increase there and there will be more details later in the financial working group report in the following slot. There's nice charts and so on so I'm not going to much detail beyond that right now. We did contract out for the work for CVCRM which is the web application that we use to manage the supporting memberships for KDEV. Mostly we've done upkeep there. We also always wanted to do additional feature development there to make life easier and give more options to supporting members such as setting their own amount unfortunately that still didn't get done this year. We're not so happy with that application anymore. As Elish mentioned earlier we may start looking into alternatives there. We've seen some interesting experiments there in the wider community such as the new website that Krita is using and let's say that's inspiring. We did also not quite done yet, back to the slide. We did not do any campaigns again. We didn't feel the need and in general we think that's more something to do when you have a specific purpose in mind which we didn't this year so we haven't done campaigns. Now the next slide please. Next. I gave you powers to fantastic. Now I can speak. All right this is more by the way you can also find in our annual report which we did manage to release in time for Academy this year that includes many reports from all sorts of corners within the community and from many EVE working groups. So please do check that out. It's a pretty great week. Once again it was a pretty exciting week. Make a living. Lydia touched on this earlier. We did within the EVE and its membership fairly exciting activity this year which was to start thinking more and more what we could do with our large accumulated resources and how we could invest them in a way that might actually promote growth within the EVE but also in the community at large. We called this make a living and what we did was interview many members of the community on their input what they thought we might be able to do to allow more people to do KDE work for a living to make it more sustainable. What we found in the past is that very often you know once activity within KDE fits into a certain life stage and then once you exit that life stage it gets tough to keep up that activity level at the same level and one way to mitigate that is to actually do it for a living and find a job doing KDE and that is exactly what we want to promote around the ecosystem. We want more of the partners that we have the corporates to create KDE jobs because they feel that's the worst well thing for them to do and maybe that is not the only idea maybe there are also other ways to create more KDE jobs. So we did the survey on that and we collected answers and we produced some erstwhile conclusions and some initial recommendations and what we came up with was a new set of contractors that KDE will hire and that are intentionally designed to actually create some new funding sources for KDE so that in the first place we can sustain those positions but also hopefully make KDE technology more attractive to adopt by others than further spreading more job creation and Lydia and Nofitos will give a talk on this later in the academy program in much greater detail so hopefully that created some appetite attending the talk because I think it would be very interesting. Working groups so the KDEV has many working groups that tend to different aspects of our activities and try to do certain activity to help the community in that area and do that with a certain level of continuity and quality example is the financial working group and also the fundraising working group and those are dear to my heart as the treasure but we have many more and we've always been trying to improve the working groups every year and make them more effective and this year we went through somewhat more a levered process on that we interviewed all of the existing working groups and essentially asked them to describe themselves how they do their work and how they see their responsibilities how they handle certain things like succession and similar and then we analyzed that and did some soul seeking on it and something that we found is that the working groups have some challenges and they do very important work but often that work can feel less rewarding than working on a more regular KDEV project does and one of the reasons is that that work is often done sort of behind the scenes behind those doors without getting that regular feedback from the community as you do if you for example work on an application they lack that visibility and therefore working in them is less rewarding so we realized that we've kind of maybe known all along how to make the working groups more effective and make it a more enjoyable place to work in and making them more like regular KDE projects are and we've written that down and explained it and given some recommendations to the working group as a result in the form of a report and we hope they find that useful for their work and that it will make it easier for them going forward to do their very important work for the KDEV community. So those activities were certainly also some of our personal highlights of the year but there were many others very cool was to see one of our patrons release a hardware device the PinePhone together with the Plasma Mobile community I think that to many was a combination of a many years long effort to make Plasma Mobile ready for a wider audience and I think the community also learned a lot working with the hardware vendor even better is that the PinePhone is just one example of several we've seen in general KDE technology get adopted in more and more devices and more and more companies get interested in shipping devices with KDE technology. I don't think that 10 years ago many people would have anticipated that when we were more sort of at all our ex in the desktop basket so to speak I think we've expanded and created a lot of new abilities and skills and experience there in the community and that's really cool to see and I think it's going to be exciting what will come from that track in the future. We were also super super super happy and grateful to see how well the community has done under really difficult circumstances in the last year during the global pandemic in almost every way and on every level people rose to the challenge of setting up the infrastructure that we needed for virtual events people attended those events at the clip and enjoyed them. Our income has remained very stable as mentioned donations that we can grow on during the pandemic sorry by the way the bit of a throat ache in the last few days so my voice is actually going to hell right now so that turned out to be really wonderful to see nevertheless I think we're all very very grateful that the state of the pandemic seems to be improving in many areas of the world and that we can return to physical events hopefully in the coming year and next to Lydia I think. While we talk about things to be grateful for and celebrate quick reminder in October 14th will be the 25th anniversary of the email sent by Matthias Etrecht to announce KDE and this is clearly something we need to celebrate if you want to help make this a very memorable occasion please turn Alison and me on Thursday to come to our booth and figure out how you can help. Okay yeah took a moment there for me to figure out that I needed to click the button sorry about that I'm going to talk about other people's achievements again. What we said we would do and what we actually managed to get done each year during this talk we give a sketch of hey what are we going to do in the next year what would KDEEV like to achieve last year we said these things we'd like to come back together well obviously that kind of fell apart the world still doesn't allow everything to happen the way we would like it to and that's why you earlier saw a couple of slides with let's do that again well let's try it again so this is going to come back on our what are we going to do this year sheet last year we said we would be working towards sustainable funding while you heard Aika say that we've made great strides towards that there's still some additional things to be done this slide still talks about using CVCRM we're and as Aika said we're weighing it in the balance make a living the third item on this slide well you've you've seen we're going to be hiring people we've figured out what we want to do and how we're going to move that forward to also help out with the sustainable funding situation more things we said we would do we would be supporting an open source friendly hardware ecosystem well we've welcomed 0.64 and slumbook to our patrons so we've definitely made steps there I think we we mission accomplished there but just because that mission is accomplished doesn't mean we need to sit down and the last thing we said we were going to try for the past year was copy and boost what works that really reflects on the on the working groups where we're enthusiastic about what they do and the the importance of the topics they choose but not all of them work as well as as they might and as Aika said we're continuing to to massage that too so we got maybe halfway on that last point so that's me looking at the past now we move on to neo who can talk about the future thanks eight so yeah talking about like and some things that we think are important and we plan to focus upon going forward for the next year we already mentioned the make a living initiative we need to fill in the positions we prepared and proposed make sure these people the new contractors they integrate probably into our community and start being productive and they add value to our products and see if there are any new areas where Katie can get into that we need to explore these goals with the organization and growth of course our eb is getting bigger the organization is growing a lot so this brings additional effort to in order to add that adjust and adopt find figure out new processes figure out new tools for collaboration and all those logistics um one of our key goals that we discussed a lot in the recent past has been on getting kitty eb members to help more and we want to push for that more so if you are a kitty eb member we need your help in order to continue growing and in order to have a more sustainable organization scheme around the eb if you are not an eb member to consider joining us if you are an eb member please uh step up and take over maybe some initiative in assigning some touch to yourself joining a working group see reach out to us to see if there's any way you can help us we could definitely use all the help we can we can get um so what we want to achieve with them is that more and more members of the year are more active as eb members they are making meaningful contributions through the eb members through the eb membership and help the board and the other people in the working groups to um around the whole association I have presented so I can go to the next slide we have the same goal last year as I mentioned we want to try again we want to bring our community back together the the bandwidth in in-person meetings is huge and we believe this can be very productive for our community for our people for building relationships so hopefully both academy and all other upcoming sprints will be a good opportunity for that in the next year and another uh big topic is the partners our hardware partnerships uh I think it was I did not mention that we have managed to build some very good ones over the past year we want to continue and improve all those partnerships explore new areas and continue to work with businesses and professionals around KDE so we have a good network of people and experts in our around us and built on top of all the experience we get so far in order to reach like future friends and I'll pass it over to Aleix to wrap it up so this was short of 30 minutes but there's a whole lot of work to be done so well work with us uh you can do so by joining our office hours later this week here it says the 23rd at uh 5 p.m you can find all of us in a myriad of communication channels both in matrix and elsewhere also by email at kdvboard.org um yeah thanks uh for listening to us and now we're gonna have the working groups um should we just start now or we have some time for questions time for questions yeah I don't think you have questions for us from the chat I don't have questions yet let me link again the the widget and the site where people can submit questions to the board and let's see if there's anything uh coming up by the way Lydia very funny academy introducer that's the that's the best one you could come up with by the way while we're here remember there's a talk by uh Lydia Neonfitos about the make a living process later today don't miss it and there's also one for the birthday right there's a buff for the birthday yeah and Adam um I I can't do better that's why we have you no okay okay good enough I'll take it I'll take it no questions coming in so I guess the presentation was very clear amazing we'll be changing people around for the work group or are you still staying as it is be staying um I could be staying you know if it is will be staying to represent working group thing okay nice and I do no work so I'm in the leaves I'm I'm I'm still working on an initialism the sort of super zany organizing presenter for academy or SZ OPA um but it it still needs a bit of work word smithing we'll we'll figure out a good job title for you eventually very good very good come on Adam yeah don't don't act like you're embarrassed out because this is the first time someone tried to do an acronym of my last name so I was in shock really yeah so no questions coming in lots of thank yous and and kudos in the in the chat but no questions so thank you thank you adrian thank you alish you're you're leaving right as well and like Lydia no fitos will be staying and who's joining as well we have several people joining from the different working groups um among them Thomas Frederick David Hushan um and Olaf oh my that's a lot this will be a big show oh um just as as people were leaving a question came up in the in the widget maybe if it's not a problem David that's not a problem are the contractors full time or part time so they are in general part time um one of the reasons is that um they are contractors and at least in most jurisdictions um contractors are not allowed to have a single client um so unless you enjoy working far more than you should it's um it's strange to have multiple clients and work for any of them full time